“For from the rising of the sun even to its setting, My Name will be great among the Gentiles, and in every place incense is going to be offered to My Name, and a grain offering that is pure; for My Name will be great among the Gentiles,” says Yahweh Sabaoth. (Malachi 1: 11)
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Ramzy Baroud—Remaking the Middle East: How the US grew tired and less relevant:
US Secretary of State John Kerry is often perceived as one of the “good guys”, the less hawkish of top American officials, who does not simply promote and defend his country’s military adventurism but reaches out to others, beyond polarising rhetoric. His unremitting efforts culminated partly in the Iran nuclear framework agreement in April, followed by a final deal, a few months later.
Now, he is reportedly hard at work again to find some sort of consensus on a way out of the Syria war, a multi-party conflict that has killed over 300,000 people. His admirers see him as the diplomatic executor of a malleable and friendly US foreign policy agenda under President Barack Obama.
In reality, this perception is misleading, although Kerry is not a warmonger as George W Bush’s top staff were, such as Vice-President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld. The two were the very antithesis of any rational foreign policy such that even the elder ex-President George H W Bush described them demeaningly, according to his biographer who was quoted in the New York Times. Cheney was an “Iron-ass”, who “had his own empire… and marched to his own drummer,” Bush the Elder said, while calling Rumsfeld “an arrogant fellow” who lacked empathy.
Yet, considering that the first President Bush was rarely a peacemaker himself, one is left to ponder over whether or not the US foreign policy ailment is centred on a failure to elect proper representatives and to enlist anyone other than psychopaths. If one is to examine US foreign policies in the Middle East fairly, for example, comparing the conduct of the last three administrations — Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Barack Obama — one would find that there are abundant striking similarities. In principle, all three administrations’ foreign policy agendas were predicated on strong militaries and military interventions, although they applied soft power differently.
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SnyderTalk Comment: The U.S. isn’t tired and less relevant. Obama and the Democrat Party are.
Turkey, Russia, Iran, and China (the TRIC nations) are taking full advantage of their incompetence.
Mrs. Clinton, how’s that reset with Russia working for you, and us? About as well as your Benghazi plan, I would say.
The American people are strong and resilient. Obama and Democrats are not. They are pandering nabobs of negativity who are trying to make America over in their image. They won’t succeed unless we let them.
Will we elect another Obama-type and continue down the road that he and Democrats prefer? I hope not, but I can’t rule out the possibility at this point.
Evidence from the history of great nations is undeniable. They destroy themselves. I hope we don’t follow Greece, Rome, and European giants like England, France, and Spain, but we are heading in that direction.
As Pogo said, “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”
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His Name is Yahweh, the website, is a companion of the book His Name is Yahweh. Both of them explain the importance of God’s Name.
The website is loaded with factual information that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Yahweh is our Savior and that the Messiah is Yahweh.
I hope you will take a few minutes and explore the website. I also hope you will share it with your friends and family.
It’s time for believers to tell the world about our God by His Name—Yahweh.
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Aaron David Miller—With Netanyahu’s Visit, 4 Reasons to Expect Smoother U.S.-Israeli Relations:
The mistrust and suspicions that have marked their relationship for seven years will not dissipate when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama meet on Monday. But for a few reasons, it’s likely that a smoother, steadier stretch in relations is coming.
- For better or worse, Mr. Obama got what he wanted—and Mr. Netanyahu didn’t–from the deal on Iran’s nuclear program. The fight about what is or is not in the agreement is essentially over, though the Israelis will follow implementation closely while they steer clear of pushing Congress to undermine that process through additional sanctions. Iran’s own behavior—including jailing U.S. citizens, violating its citizens’ human rights, or offering support to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad–might prompt Congress to act without prompting. Right now, Mr. Netanyahu’s job is to make a virtue out of necessity and extract as much as he can in U.S. security and military assistance. It’s in his interest to show his constituents that while he lost the Iran fight, Israel will gain meaningfully all the same. What Mr. Netanyahu cannot afford is strained relations with the U.S. without a robust security package. That means accommodation, not confrontation.
- Mr. Obama would like to slam Mr. Netanyahu hard on the peace process; the question is whether he can find an effective way to do so. Mr. Obama opposes Israeli settlement activity and believes that Mr. Netanyahu is playing him on the two-state solution. But he doesn’t have many levers to pull given the latest wave of Palestinian violence, Mahmoud Abbas’s campaign to gain international recognition by isolating Israel, and the long odds against agreement on the big issues such as Jerusalem and borders. Seeking a U.N. Security Council resolution that would lay out the basis of a deal would alienate Israel and Congress–and produce nothing on the ground. Mr. Obama may decide to air his ideas for a solution next year. But for now the smarter play is trying to work with Mr. Netanyahu rather than against him. Why fight if doing so produces only a breakdown with Israel and no breakthrough on the two-state standoff?
Jonathan Tobin—Obama’s Captain Obvious Moment:
Is it possible that President Obama has finally learned from some of his mistakes?
That’s the question observers must be asking after reading accounts of statements from White House officials in advance of today’s meeting between the president and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
The main revelation is that his advisers say the president understands that a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians won’t happen before he leaves office in January 2017. While cynics could chortle and say this is Obama’s Captain Obvious moment since, if this is so, then he is perhaps the last person on Earth to finally acknowledge this. But the real question here is not so much why Obama has conceded the point, but whether he is still blaming Israel for this failure and what, if anything, he’ll do to punish them for it.
Let’s recall that President Obama came into office in January 2009 determined to change what he considered was the fundamental flaw of U.S. Middle East policy during the George W. Bush administration: a lack of “daylight” between the U.S. and Israel.
Obama believed that if he distanced the U.S. from Israel, it would encourage the Palestinians to make peace and assist his policy of outreach to the Muslim and Arab worlds that he outlined in his Cairo speech later that year. Obama achieved the daylight and then some during the last seven years of constant sniping at Israel as he broke new ground in terms of criticism especially on the status of Jerusalem.
But no matter how much he tilted the diplomatic playing field in the direction of the Palestinians, they never chose to talk peace seriously. Though Netanyahu accepted a two-state solution and offered to give up almost all of the West Bank, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas refused that opening just as he and his predecessor Yasir Arafat refused even more generous offers of statehood and a share of Jerusalem from Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert.
Steven Mufson—Obama and Netanyahu Seek to Move Beyond Iran Deal:
President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will seek to move beyond their public clash over the Iran nuclear deal when they meet in Washington on Monday. The leaders plan to discuss how to counter Iranian aid to Hizbullah and Hamas, and the Russian and Iranian efforts to prop up Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Obama no longer harbors hope for a peace agreement or even renewed talks during the last year of his presidency. Instead, he is searching for ways to keep alive the idea of a two-state solution. Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said, “There are practical things that can be done on the ground to build back some degree of trust and cooperation between the two sides. Clearly, part of that also involves rejecting violence and rejecting incitement. And we’ve called upon the Palestinian leadership to do so.”
Matt Spence—The Defense Relationship with Israel Makes America Safer:
The U.S. and Israel are far closer than many realize on our core issues. As President Obama’s deputy assistant secretary of defense for Middle East policy from 2012 to 2015, I traveled to Israel over two dozen times to discuss the deepest threats to our nations and how to preserve Israel’s “qualitative military edge.” Last week, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter reinforced his priority that America’s military must develop an insurance policy should Iran back away from the nuclear agreement.
The defense relationship with Israel makes America safer. Israel has the military and intelligence capabilities of no other nation in the Middle East. It provides the U.S. critical intelligence, joint military exercises, and technology. Defensive technological cooperation can find better ways to shoot down enemies’ missiles, defend against cyber attacks, and detect weapons smuggled through tunnels on Israel’s border.
The battle scars over the Iran nuclear agreement are not as deep as the shared interest in holding Iran accountable to the deal, and deterring and responding to Iran’s destabilizing threats. A joint monitoring group for the Iran nuclear deal should be created. Its purpose should include discussing Iran’s destabilizing activities in the region that go beyond the nuclear issue – Iran’s significant conventional forces in the region, its terrorist attacks, and cyber capabilities.
Bill Wilson—Prophecy, the Assyrian, antiChrist, Gog and beast:
As we eye the coalition of forces gathered and battling in Syria, many are pointing to end time prophecy, and rightly so. Christ said in Matthew 24:5-8, “For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that you be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in various places.All these are the beginning of sorrows.” While we may not be quite in the beginning of sorrows, there is deception, wars, rumors of wars. We are seeing signs of those things that must come to pass.
Again, I direct your attention to Christ’s words when he was asked by his disciples about the sign of his coming and the end of the world. He began to answer in Matthew 24:4 with “Take heed that no man deceive you.” Then he explained what would happen during the times leading up to the end, and in the end. His account is precisely in alignment with the prophets of the Old Testament, the Apostle Paul, and the Revelation of John. We know that God is not the author of confusion. But there is great confusion among men about the end times. Some believe all prophecy has been fulfilled, others believe they are establishing the Kingdom on earth, still others believe much prophecy is yet to be fulfilled.
End time prophecy is full of foreshadowing, partial fulfillments and precursors. Throughout history, there has been rise and fall of those who were types of the end time apocalyptic figure–what Christians call the “antichrist,” what Holy Scripture calls the “beast” or, more specifically, the “Assyrian.” This antichrist figure is alluded to as the Assyrian in Isaiah 10:5,10:24,14:25, 19:23, 30:31, 31:8, Micah 5:5-6, and Hosea 11:5. Ezekiel refers to him as Gog, chief Prince of Magog. The Lord speaks of the Assyrian or Gog in Ezekiel 38:17, “Art you he of whom I have spoken in old times by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring ye against them?”
Lawrence A. Franklin—Iran’s Mirage: More Humiliation to Follow:
- The Rouhani-Zarif façade of civility toward the West was enough to persuade the vain, delusional and acquisitive in Western leadership circles that change had finally come again to Iran. However, no amount of Persian tea or Iranian rosewater-drenched ice cream shared between Kerry and Zarif can drown out the deceptive hoax of the JCPOA. Before the ink was dry, Khamenei and the security services announced that the agreement has no standing in Iran.
- To punctuate the point, Tehran arrested a prominent Iranian-American businessman, Siamak Namazi, and a Lebanese-American, Nazar Zaka, to add to its collection of fraudulently-charged hostages: Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian; former marine Amir Hekmati; Pastor Saeed Abedini, and retired FBI agent Robert Levinson.
- Just in case the U.S. needed one more symbolic kick, the regime closed down the first KFC fast food restaurant in Tehran on Monday, just one day after it opened.
Prof. Eyal Zisser—The next level of Islamic State:
The Islamic State group has been touting the killing of “Russian crusaders,” namely the downing of Metrojet Flight 9268 over the Sinai Peninsula on Oct. 31 with 224 people aboard, as a major achievement in its retribution campaign against Russian President Vladimir Putin over the Russian involvement in the Syrian civil war.
Putin could not have imagined that his gambit in Syria would exact such a heavy price, but his considerations are not the issue. The issue is the leap in the level of threat Islamic State’s offshoots in Sinai pose to the Egyptian regime, the Sinai tourism industry, and to Israel, which is no stranger to terrorist attacks on its southern border.
Al-Qaida and its nefarious ilk have been struggling to replicate the horrific success of the 9/11 attacks, no doubt because of the security clampdown worldwide, but also because terrorist groups have lost territorial strongholds that allowed them to prepare for an operation of that scope. At the time, Taliban-controlled Afghanistan was the logistic point of departure for the terrorists, but the American invasion of Afghanistan left the terrorist group devoid of its main base of operations.
John Hulsman—Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Turkey’s Putin can’t halt the coming economic meltdown:
You have to hand it to him. Turkey’s increasingly authoritarian President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is turning into quite the Putin mini-me, both in terms of his ruthlessness and his complete political mastery of his country.
Stung by his Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) shocking failure (after over a decade of utter dominance) to win June’s parliamentary elections outright, Erdogan responded by wandering even further off the reservation. Rather than meekly accepting the Turkish voters’ verdict and curtailing his dreams of creating a strong Turkish executive presidency (with himself at the helm) in place of the current parliamentary system, Erdogan doubled down, embarking on a series of highly risky domestic and foreign policy moves designed to reestablish his absolute dominance of Turkish politics. How, western experts wailed, could he be so reckless?
The simple answer, which any realist understands, is that everything Erdogan has done since the June elections has been an effort to alter those newly-imposed domestic constraints on his power. As ever, this real world imperative conditions everything else, including foreign policy. The western punditocracy may bewail his lack of statesmanship, but it is unlikely that the Turkish President cares very much. From the perspective of the Turkish Sultan, doubling down on his domestic political agenda makes eminent sense.
Erdogan knew that if he quietly accepted the result in June, his dream of changing the very nature of Turkish politics itself would be definitively over. Worse still, the surprising June election could well have marked the high-water mark of AKP power as a whole.
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Worst of all, after the first halcyon years of AKP dominance, when then Prime Minister Abdullah Gul led the charge for economic liberalisation and structural reform, Erdogan has seemed to have little interest in sustaining such a policy. With the US Federal Reserve sure to raise interest rates, and with Turkey already nearing meltdown, Erdogan’s unambiguous victory will likely mean that he – and he alone – will be left holding the bag when Turkey falls off the economic cliff.
SnyderTalk Comment: It will be a global meltdown. Every country will be affected.
In other words, Erdogan will have someone or something to blame. That’s enough in Turkey.
Mark Steyn—The Shrinking Horizon:
The Russians’ reluctant acceptance of the British view – that their plane was blown up over Sinai by an on-board bomb – is a glimpse of a new world. Air travel, for tourism and business, is a major prop of the globalized economy. But many airport security systems around the planet exist with one foot in the First World and one in the Third – Egypt is fairly typical in that respect. So is Russia, which managed to kill Christophe de Margerie, the head of the Total oil company, by leaving a snowplough in the middle of the runway as his plane was taking off. Having concluded a successful meeting with Medvedev, M de Margerie was on his way home and assumed he was in an advanced functioning transportation system. He wasn’t: He was in one of those parts of the world in which the veneer of technology is a mere veil for the vast dysfunction underneath – one that ISIS and others can exploit very easily when they choose to do so. If they ever find out what happened to that Malaysian jet (the first one), there may be similar revelations about Kuala Lumpur. As Europe Islamizes, such incidents will come to Frankfurt and Stockholm and Amsterdam.
It’s what I called in both America Alone and After America “the re-primitivization of the map”. What remains of civilization will, if we’re lucky, live like Israel – as mostly secure fortresses, beyond whose iron dome you venture at your peril. And getting from one iron dome to the next will be ever trickier. But beach holidays in Sharm al-Sheikh will not be on the horizon.
Amos N. Guiora—‘Kristallnacht’: The Legal Status of the Bystander:
I am child of the Holocaust. Both of my parents are Holocaust survivors. This essay seeks to answer three questions essential to my understanding of the Holocaust, the bystander, and my understanding of duty owed to another individual.
Those questions are: What do we learn from the Holocaust in general, in particular from Kristallnacht, regarding the bystander? What is the responsibility of the individual in the face of unmitigated racism and hatred? What is the most appropriate application of the painful lessons that can be learned from the tragic events of Nov. 9-10, 1938?
On November 7, 1938, a Jewish youth named Herschel Grynszpan shot the German diplomat Ernst Vom Rath in Paris. Grynszpan’s family, Polish Jews living in Germany, were ordered to be expelled by the Nazi regime and transferred to refugee camps whose conditions were dire. Vom Rath died of his wounds on Nov. 9; word reached Hitler shortly thereafter while attending a dinner commemorating the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. Upon hearing the news, Hitler left the dinner; speaking on his behalf Goebbels, in essence, called for a pogrom directed against Jews. The expression “spontaneously planned” has been used by historians to describe the unfolding of the events of the next two days.
Within hours of Goebbels’ words, more than 1,000 synagogues were set on fire or destroyed; in 24 hours 91 Jews were killed; and over 30,000 Jewish men aged 16 to 60 were sent to concentration camps where they were tormented and tortured for a number of months. More than 1,000 of those arrested met their deaths in the camps. Rampant looting and extreme violence in a hateful atmosphere marked Kristallnacht, along with arrests, destruction of physical property, physical abuse, and humiliation in more than 1,000 cities, towns, and villages in Germany and Austria.
SnyderTalk Comment: Standing by and watching Jewish people being mistreated because they are Jewish is complicity.
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Israel Air Force hits Hamas terror target after rocket lands in Israel
MKs urge PM to tell Obama: US objection to settlement building is ‘unreasonable’
SnyderTalk Comment: They can tell Obama anything they want, but it will not matter. He listens to only one voice, his own.
‘I was once a guy who burned Israeli flags’
‘I’m doing this with a clear head, for my homeland,’ terrorist writes before stabbing attack
‘Russia & Iran have signed contract for S-300 missile system delivery’
‘When Armon Hanatziv attacker ran out of bullets, he started strangling a passenger’
Analysis: The ICC decision on ‘Mavi Marmara’ may actually be good for Israel
Jordanian police officer kills two Americans at training center near Amman
He said, she said and the Gaza security fence that is not getting built
UK Academics Participate in Haifa U. Conference, Rejecting Calls for Academic Boycott of Israel
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Scandal: Jews not invited to Swedish Kristallnacht commemoration
Liberman: Yisrael Beytenu ‘the only secular right-wing party’
Ioanina’s Jews: Remants of a vibrant Romanioti community
Ex-Obama official: ‘Jewish power bubble’ has popped
Europe – and echoes from the past
Jewish Home MK blasts plans for new PA city
Dep. FM heads for Munich to memorialize massacre
Deri transfers 20 million shekels to ancient tombs
Counter-terror kids’ game irks MK
French strike hits ISIS oil facility in Syria
Fatah welcomes shooting attacks in Hevron
Abbas and Sisi discuss peace process
Iran to attend next round of Syria talks
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Palestinian woman brandishing knife is shot dead at checkpoint
After car-ramming, son of elderly suspect casts doubt on IDF story
Paradise lost, and remembered, for the Jews of Rhodes
Netanyahu lands in Washington ahead of Obama meeting
Border Police officer hit in car-ramming attack dies of wounds
Israel strikes Hamas site in Gaza after rocket attack
Likud politicians slam Zoabi for Israel-Nazi comparisons at Holocaust event
New bridge to connect Israeli-Jordanian industrial zones
Likud minister Steinitz joins chorus against media chief pick
WATCH: Flash floods wreak havoc in Ashkelon
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Paratroopers Brigade to launch ultra-Orthodox unit
Egyptian leader seen as target of jihad
Video: Undercover IDF Troops Arrest Palestinian Rioters
Cameron Heckled in Foretaste of Coming EU Referendum Campaign
Catalan parliament votes to break with Spain
Unrest Reported at Australian Immigration Detention Camp
Pro-Israel Group Refutes Roger Waters’ Comments on Country
Westwood rally shows solidarity with Israel after recent violence
Unrest Reported at Australian Immigration Detention Camp
Israel approves initial plans for settlement homes
Israeli Arab Lawmaker Uses Holocaust Commemoration to Compare Israel to Nazis
CO2 levels hit record high for 30th year in a row – WMO
SnyderTalk Comment: CO2 emissions keep rising and earth keeps cooling. Go figure.
Could it be that all those reports about global warming being caused by man-made CO2 emissions were wrong? Yes.
This is the truth: the earth cycles. It always has. Mankind has nothing to do with it.
That’s a difficult pill for global warming alarmists to swallow, but they should pretend to be brave and gulp it down anyway.
The global warming alarmists that I know are what I call email/Facebook informed. By that I mean they don’t know the facts and don’t care. I won’t be holding my breath until they swallow.
I fear that they will go to their graves ignorant but confident.
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Iran: Poets Face 99 Lashes and Prison
‘Israel provided key intelligence on Russian plane crash in Sinai’
US admiral sees no change in Iranian behavior
Iran: U.S. Must Pay Reparations to the Islamic Republic
Turkish opposition leader accuses Erdogan of seeking ‘constitutional dictatorship’
Is Erdogan waging a war of choice against the PKK?
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Exodus 28
36 “You shall also make a plate of pure gold and shall engrave on it, like the engravings of a seal, ‘Holy to Yahweh.’ 37 You shall fasten it on a blue cord, and it shall be on the turban; it shall be at the front of the turban. 38 It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall take away the iniquity of the holy things which the sons of Israel consecrate, with regard to all their holy gifts; and it shall always be on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh. 39 You shall weave the tunic of checkered work of fine linen, and shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the work of a weaver.”
SnyderTalk Comment: Read His Name is Yahweh.
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His Name is Yahweh explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important. It’s available in eBook format and in paperback. It’s also available for free in PDF format.
- God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This [Yahweh] is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.” (Exodus 3: 15)
- “Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—this time I will make them know My power and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahweh.” (Jeremiah 16: 21)
- “Behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; and He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; and this is His name by which He will be called, ‘Yahweh our righteousness.’” (Jeremiah 23: 5-6)
- Yeshua said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.” (John 8: 58)
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Torah Life interview with Neil Snyder during Sukkot 2012 in Glen Rose, Texas
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Blessings in the Book of Revelation is a book that you need to read, especially now. There are blessings throughout the Scriptures but Revelation is the only book in the Bible actually containing a specific blessing for reading it. It’s repeated twice, once at the beginning and again at the end. This is the reason that I believe Revelation should be the first step toward studying biblical prophecy. Though not easy to do, Revelation can be broken down and understood by anyone, not just the academic elite. So, Revelation’s blessings are for everyone. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
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Other Books by Neil Snyder
- Stand! is a suspense novel that exposes the lies, corruption, and greed underlying the theory that man-made CO2 emissions are responsible for global warming. Professor Wes Carlyle and Karen Sterling, his research collaborator, carefully scan the audience for their would-be attacker—a member of the enviro-gestapo who has been following them for days. Wes spots his man in the back of the room leaning against the wall. Suddenly, another man in the audience steps forward and moves toward Karen at a menacing pace. With a vicious stroke, he swings a billy club at her head. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
- What Will You Do with the Rest of Your Life? deals with a question that every Christian has to consider: what should I do with my life? Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
- Falsely Accused is a true story about a young woman who was accused of committing a double homicide. It’s about a travesty of justice, and it reveals Yahweh intervening in the life of a believer to rescue her from danger in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Everyone will enjoy the book, but young people in particular need to read it because the mistakes made that led to the problem could have been avoided. They were the kinds of mistakes that young people are prone to make. As they say, forewarned is forearmed. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
See “His Name is Yahweh”.
